Procrastination
From SpongeBob SquarePants
| SpongeBob SquarePants episode | |
| "Procrastination" | |
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| Season №: | 2 |
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| Episode №: | 37a |
| Airdate: | November 30, 2001 |
| Best Day Ever Rank: | #100 |
| Credits | |
| Writer(s): | Walt Dohrn Paul Tibbitt Doug Lawrence |
| Storyboard Artist(s): | Carson Kugler William Reiss Erik Weise |
| Directors | |
| Storyboard: | Walt Dohrn Paul Tibbitt |
| Animation: | Tom Yasumi |
| Creative: | Derek Drymon |
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"Procrastination" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season two.
Time/Date:
- 2:50 PM: SpongeBob starts his essay
- 5:55 PM: SpongeBob says "Gee...this is harder than I thought!"
- 6:00 PM: SpongeBob says "It's only six o'clock!"
- 10:00 PM: SpongeBob finishes cleaning the kitchen
- 12:00 AM: SpongeBob shines the candle-light on the clock
- 8:55 AM: SpongeBob wakes up
- 9:00 AM: Class Starts
Characters Present:
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Mrs. Puff
- Patrick Star
- Gary
- Fish at carnival
- Clock
- House
- Flame
- Pants
- Sandy Cheeks
- Boating School students
- "Mailfish"
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[edit] Plot
SpongeBob is assigned an 800-word essay at boating school about what not to do at a stoplight, which is due the following day. Unfortunately, SpongeBob's initial excitement about the project is not enough to overcome the writer's block he experiences as soon as he sits down to write. After hours of procrastination, followed by a dream during the night about his inability to finish the report, SpongeBob wakes just in time for school to begin. In an effort to overcome his procrastination, he writes about everything that happened in his dream as ideas of what not to do at a stoplight. After rushing to boating school, full of excitement at having completed the assignment just in time, SpongeBob learns from Mrs. Puff that she has a teachers' meeting and the class will be going on a field trip to a stoplight, instead. Stupefied by his unnecessarily bizarre night, SpongeBob rips his essay in half and also splits himself in half.
[edit] Transcript
[edit] Deleted Scenes
The following scenes were deleted from the episode. To this day, the reason has yet to be revealed.
1. As SpongeBob begins to write his essay he looks outside and sees a carnival with the sun smiling, a roller coaster, a Ferris wheel, Squidward suntanning, kids playing with a ball, a fish eating ice cream, two jellyfish playing tennis, Gary rolling on a ball playing a horn, and Patrick rubbing sunscreen on Sandy, the latter of which probably triggered the removal due to sexual connotations. The scene was shown on the 2nd season disc 3, though.
2. When SpongeBob says that he must complete the essay, so that he will be "one step closer to my boating license!", a live action clip is shown of a dragster roaring off the starting line, flipping over, and sliding on its rollbar. It was cut to prevent kids from imitating the stunt. Along with that, a scene in which SpongeBob does calisthenics was cut, for as of yet unknown reasons. In these, SpongeBob exercised his eyebrows, nose, eyelashes. The uncut version can still be seen in "Christmas", which was released on September 30, 2003, and on the Season 2 Box Set. On the other hand, the cut version was shown on May 17, 2005 when re-ran on Nickelodeon. Today, it still airs on Nick and Nicktoons, with the uncut version being "put away somewhere that the public will never see", yet the uncut version has still been shown on YTV. It was also shown regularly in the UK (and possibly still is). Many other countries keep these scenes intact, as well. These scenes were also kept in the disc 3 for the 2nd season.
[edit] APM Music Indentnification
- Dramatic Cue H - It's only 10:00?!"
- Dramatic Cue E - "How does he know I have to write an essay?"
- The Plot Thickens - "In other news, local resident SpongeBob SquarePants only has a few hours to complete his essay, and yet he continues to goof off.z' (head stricks out TV) "When will he learn?"
- Terror By Night - SpongeBob's house burns.
- Flight In Panic (1) - "Help! HELP! My house is on fire!"
[edit] Trivia/Goofs
- On his essay, SpongeBob misspells "Stoplight" Spotlight.
- This episode and "I'm with Stupid" have unusually pale coloring and seem to be more dramatic than the other season 2 episodes (excluding Bubble Buddy.)
- Mrs. Puff should have told the class at the end of school that she cancelled the assignment, not call them.
- Five inanimate objects talk during SpongeBob's dream: the recliner, a candle fire, SpongeBob's pants, the clock shaped like a snail's face, and the pineapple house. This is a direct reference to "Pee Wee's Playhouse".
- The title card is meant to be a goof on the painting Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali, where multiple clocks seem as if they are melted. The painting is also shown when SpongeBob rushed to the desk before his pants fell off.
- The live-action car sequence and the scene where SpongeBob does calisthenics were not removed from the Latin American re-runs.They are seen in the American Season 2 DVD set also.
- In this episode SpongeBob has kelp milk, Aqua Bread, Horse of the Sea, a chinese take out box,an ice cube tray, two cans of soda(one red the other green), an orange box, a purple box, ketchup, and mayo all in his fridge.
- In the German version of this episode, this episode is called Der Aufsatz, which means "The Essay".
- Listen carefully, when SpongeBob is cleaning the kitchen, you could hear an instrumental version of the Tiny Tim song from the first episode.
- On the television captions of the edited version of this episode, the (children laughing) caption is accidentally leaked in from the deleted scene in the final version.
- When SpongeBob wakes up from his dream and looks at the paper before looking at the clock, only the words "The" written fancy is shown and the "What not to do at a stoplight by Spongebob Squarepants" is missing from the top.
- In other episodes, Spongebob had a "Shell Phone", but when he is talking to Patrick on the phone, it is a metal telephone. It could be another phone in the same room or the phone broke and he had to buy another. Or it could be an error.
- There is a classic cartoon mispelling, like when they purposly spell the name of the product wrong, in the middle of the episode, when SpongeBob was giving Gary the food in the box, the box says, "Snail Fud" {food}.
- The storyline of this episode is almost the same as in Squid's Day Off wherein squidward did all for nothing at the end.
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